HackerNews top stories from 10 to 17 Apr, 2022.⌗

[0] We lost 54k GitHub stars

[1] Etsy Strike

[2] DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

[3] Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself

[4] Elon Musk Launches $43B Hostile Takeover of Twitter

[5] Heresy

[6] Europe is investing heavily in trains

[7] Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago

[8] An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

[9] Node.js packages don’t deserve trust

[10] Inside the longest Atlassian outage of all time

[11] Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’

[12] Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981

[13] Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket

[14] I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it

[15] I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing

[16] Neovim 0.7 Released

[17] Youtube.js – full-featured wrapper around YouTube’s private API

[18] Elon has decided not to join our board

[19] Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

[20] Van life (cancer edition) finale

[21] New(ish) command line tools

[22] Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won’t let writers leave until they are finished

[23] A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem

[24] Achievement unlocked: rustc segfault

[25] Never hose out a Honda Element

[26] U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

[27] Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I’m lost

[28] The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown

[29] What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers